Time Sharing Option Contract Job Trends in Reading

IBM Time Sharing Option (TSO)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Time Sharing Option skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Time Sharing Option 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.091% - -
As % of the System Software category 0.99% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £475 - -

All System Software Skills
Reading

Time Sharing Option falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 101 65 128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 9.20% 11.21% 11.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 32 85
10th Percentile £406 £169 £505
25th Percentile £500 £363 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £605
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -17.36% +15.24%
75th Percentile £632 £639 £638
90th Percentile £700 £663 £670
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £605
% change year-on-year +5.26% -21.49% +21.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 2
10th Percentile £61.74 - £59.55
25th Percentile £64.25 - £61.13
Median hourly rate £69.82 - £63.93
Median % change year-on-year - - +27.87%
75th Percentile £84.69 - £66.89
90th Percentile £93.75 - £68.57
Berkshire median hourly rate £68.11 - £58.49
% change year-on-year - - +16.98%

Time Sharing Option
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Time Sharing Option relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Time Sharing Option job vacancy trend in Reading

Time Sharing Option
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) CICS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) IBM UrbanCode
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Database Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Broadcom
1 1 (100.00%) IBM